I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the members of the board who have taken the opportunity to share your thoughts and experiences with me either directly or through the questionnaire. I would also like to thank all the service providers on the board who have either contacted me directly with your kind words of support and/or helped out by passing information along about this important project to your clients. With all of your help we are on track to include an even larger group of people’s voices than we did with Johns’ Voice (htttp://www.johnsvoice.ca)!
While each and every person’s individual opinions and experiences are vital, it is the collective voices of people who pay for sexual services that have the most influence when it comes to presenting a more fair, honest and complete picture of the diversity of the patrons of this industry for making arguments about how to ensure that the industry and ALL people involved in it remain safe.
For those of you who are still on the fence about participating in this project or for those of you who are not convinced of the need or don’t fully understand why we have placed so much emphasis on context (i.e., why we ask all the questions we do), I would encourage you to take a look at another project that recently began that is designed to present ‘information’ about people who purchase sexual services. The project is called “The Invisible Men” and you can find it here http://the-invisible-men.tumblr.com/ For those of you on Twitter, you can also check them out @InvisibleChoice This project is being heavily publicised by prohibitionist and abolitionists here in Canada that are advocating for the Nordic model. I guess the question I would ask is would you rather the image of people who pay for sexual services that makes the 5 o’clock news or that is used by policy makers and legislators in discussions about how Canada’s sex industry should be regulated post-Bedford be the salacious cherry-picked quotes that the group behind “The Invisible Man” project or self-proclaimed ‘authorities’ such as Victor Malarek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Mj2haletE ) use?
Please do not hesitate to contact me directly if you have any questions, comments or concerns or if you want to contribute one-to-one (either in-person, on the phone or through Skype).
Chris Atchison
Department of Sociology
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria, BC
V8W 2Y2
email: info@sexsafetysecurity.ca
web: www.sexsafetysecurity.ca
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sex-S...05611512938349
Twitter: @SexSafetySecure
While each and every person’s individual opinions and experiences are vital, it is the collective voices of people who pay for sexual services that have the most influence when it comes to presenting a more fair, honest and complete picture of the diversity of the patrons of this industry for making arguments about how to ensure that the industry and ALL people involved in it remain safe.
For those of you who are still on the fence about participating in this project or for those of you who are not convinced of the need or don’t fully understand why we have placed so much emphasis on context (i.e., why we ask all the questions we do), I would encourage you to take a look at another project that recently began that is designed to present ‘information’ about people who purchase sexual services. The project is called “The Invisible Men” and you can find it here http://the-invisible-men.tumblr.com/ For those of you on Twitter, you can also check them out @InvisibleChoice This project is being heavily publicised by prohibitionist and abolitionists here in Canada that are advocating for the Nordic model. I guess the question I would ask is would you rather the image of people who pay for sexual services that makes the 5 o’clock news or that is used by policy makers and legislators in discussions about how Canada’s sex industry should be regulated post-Bedford be the salacious cherry-picked quotes that the group behind “The Invisible Man” project or self-proclaimed ‘authorities’ such as Victor Malarek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Mj2haletE ) use?
Please do not hesitate to contact me directly if you have any questions, comments or concerns or if you want to contribute one-to-one (either in-person, on the phone or through Skype).
Chris Atchison
Department of Sociology
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria, BC
V8W 2Y2
email: info@sexsafetysecurity.ca
web: www.sexsafetysecurity.ca
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sex-S...05611512938349
Twitter: @SexSafetySecure
